No sticker books, comic books (including Garfield) or Nintendo guide books." Thank you, TOR Books, for helping sneak this one by my parents. My parents had a strict "we'll let you buy one book a month from the Scholastic ordering catalog, but it has to be a BOOK book. This paperback was my greatest achievement as I convinced my parents it was a novel (why else it would be featured in a Scholastic book ordering brochure?) back in elementary school and they let me order it. This paperback was reprinted a few times, and even more so with DC gearing up for the Batman film being released in 1989. This was the same mini-series that was a cereal give-away (albeit the issues were in a smaller format) in 1989.
This mini-series originally included 3 audiocassettes (one cassette to accompany each issue) that read the issue to you. Published in 1982, this paperback reprints all three issues of Untold Legend of the Batman mini-series from 1980 by Len Wein, Jim Aparo and John Byrne. Vandal Savage was a curious choice for a villain, as I imagine any new fans gained via the Superman films wouldn't have been familiar with him.ħ) The Untold Legend of the Batman. Written by Martin Pasko with art by George Tuska and Vince Colletta, this paperback features Superman, the Flash, Aquaman AND Wonder Woman (no Batman, however).
Published in 1982, this paperback reprinted the Vandal Savage Strikes! storyline from The World's Greatest Superheroes newspaper comic strip that ran in 1978. This is a reprint of 1979's World of Krypton mini-series and, after a quick read through, no panels from the original mini-series have been left out (I haven't done a page-by-page comparison, yet).Ģ) The World's Greatest Superheroes present Superman. This one was first published in 1982 and reprinted many times afterwards. The six titles were:ġ) World of Krypton: The Home of Superman. Tempo Books published mass-market comic book reprint paperbacks from 1969 to 1985 (with the bulk of it's DC paperbacks released in 1977/78), so there wouldn't have been much overlap between TOR and Tempo.Īs far I can tell, TOR Books only published 6 of these mass-market paperbacks in the early eighties, but they were reprinted over and over again so they were not as scarce as you'd expect them to be. In the mid-to-late seventies, Tempo Books ( Grosset & Dunlap) also published black & white paperback-sized reprints of DC comic books, but they didn't stop there - they also published Marvel & DC puzzle books, an Incredible Hulk paperback, a Star Hawks paperback, a Dick Tracy paperback, a Mandrake the Magician paperback, a few Spirit paperbacks, a few Richie Rich paperbacks, and a whole bunch of Heathcliff and Hagar the Horrible paperbacks. TOR Books also wasn't the FIRST publisher to reprint black & white paperback-sized reprints of DC comics, either.
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